# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1904_S65
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of the Ev. Luth. Synodical Conference of North America. 1904. 65

                                                          A Class.         B Class.
                                                      (Lower class.)   (Upper class.)
Catechism, Catechetics (both classes
    together) ........................................                 3 hours a week.
Bible Reading and Exposition (both
    classes together) ................................                 2 “ “
Arithmetic ..........................................   5 hours,       5 “ “
German, Reading, and Grammar ........................   5 “            5 “ “
English Reading, Analysis, etc. .....................   2½ “           2½ “ “
History .............................................   2½ “           2½ “ “
Grammar with Exercises ..............................   3 “            3 “ “
Rhetoric ............................................                  2½ “ “
Physical Geography ..................................                  1 hour “
Composition .........................................   1 hour,        1 “ a month.
Geography (both classes together) ...................                  5 hours a week.
Spelling and Dictation (both classes together) ......                  2½ “ “
Music, vocal and instrumental (both classes together)                  5 “ “
                                                       TOTAL:          56 “ “

The lower class has had five hours weekly of instruction in arithmetic from Teacher Persson, and both classes five hours of music instruction. Pastor Schmidt has taught the same class ten hours weekly in English, German and history.

There is also a literary society in the institution, which meets every Friday evening from 8 to half past nine [printed "½10"]. A program prepared beforehand by a committee, consisting of short self-composed speeches, debates, dialogues, declamations and singing, is carried out. The society is under my direction. A beginning has also been made with a library [printed "wokden" for "worden"]. Each member pledges himself to pay 10 cents monthly for the purchase of books; but the fewest have been able to pay their contribution.

I have little to find fault with in the conduct of the students. From the beginning I have led them to Christian self-discipline. They elect their own officers, whose duty it is to see that discipline and order are kept. This arrangement has proved itself well. Each one strives to be a good citizen of this little republic. Only One has rebelled against his superiors and wanted to play the anarchist. He claimed more freedom; he was, he said, "a free man in a free country." When the "College campus" became too narrow for him, he went off without bundle, books or taking leave, and has also let nothing be heard from himself since. His rights in the Immanuel College he has naturally forfeited.

In the moral conduct of the nine girls, for whom the same school rules apply as for the boys, there was nothing to find fault with. Since four organs were donated to the institution, two have been placed at the girls' disposal in their living rooms. That they have used the instruments diligently is attested by the progress they have made. They are all girls who have for years already in our congregations as earnest